CVE-2024-41007 — tcp: avoid too many retransmit packets

Affected: Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tcp: avoid too many retransmit packets

If a TCP socket is using TCP_USER_TIMEOUT, and the other peer retracted its window to zero, tcp_retransmit_timer() can retransmit a packet every two jiffies (2 ms for HZ=1000), for about 4 minutes after TCP_USER_TIMEOUT has 'expired'.

The fix is to make sure tcp_rtx_probe0_timed_out() takes icsk->icsk_user_timeout into account.

Before blamed commit, the socket would not timeout after icsk->icsk_user_timeout, but would use standard exponential backoff for the retransmits.

Also worth noting that before commit e89688e3e978 ("net: tcp: fix unexcepted socket die when snd_wnd is 0"), the issue would last 2 minutes instead of 4.

USN-7003-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux-oracle vulnerabilit…

Affected: Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-aws, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-azure, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-bluefield, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-gcp, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-gkeop, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-ibm, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-kvm, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: linux-oracle

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CVE-2024-41007 — tcp: avoid too many retransmit packets

USN-7003-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux-oracle vulnerabilit…